Smuggling the world’s largest land animal across an international border sounds like a mammoth undertaking, but activists say that does not stop traffickers supplying Asian elephants to Thai tourist attractions.
Nine female commercial models and entertainers on Tuesday stripped down for the cameras to demonstrate what they called “the naked truth” about the condition of Mali, Manila Zoo’s lone elephant.
A speeding passenger train killed five elephants when it ploughed into a herd crossing the track in eastern India, a railway spokesman said Monday.
A passenger train has plowed into and killed five elephants of a herd crossing railroad tracks in eastern India.
A British circus owner has been found guilty on three counts of causing unnecessary suffering to an Asian elephant called Anne.
An elephant in a South Korean zoo is using his trunk to pick up not only food, but also human vocabulary.
A female keeper was rushed to hospital in a critical condition Friday after being pinned against a bollard by an elephant at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo, authorities said.
Amid a controversy involving a Cebu priest allegedly connected to illegal ivory trade, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines on Wednesday said the Catholic Church does not condone ivory smuggling even if in the past it was a main ornament used for liturgical worship.
While an animal rights watchdog contends that Manila zoo’s lone elephant is suffering physically and psychologically, her “best friend” has come out to air sentiments to the contrary.
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has joined the clamor of animal rights advocates for the transfer of Mali, Manila Zoo’s only elephant, to a sanctuary where she would be freed from “years of boredom and misery.”
Mali is happy in her Philippine home. Why remove her from the Manila Zoo—where she has lived for more than three decades—and take her to a strange new sanctuary in the United States?
Police in Vietnam say a circus elephant has trampled to death a girl who sneaked into a yard to feed it.
It’s confirmed: Manila Zoo will be getting a new elephant. According to Manila Public Recreations Bureau chief and zoo administrator Deogracias Manimbo, the Sri Lankan ambassador recently informed zoo officials about the “positive reception” to the city’s request for a new elephant. In July, Mayor Alfredo Lim announced that he had written to eight Southeast [...]
